Literacy through Children's and YA Literature

The April book selection is the participants' choice of one of of the 2012 Robert F. SIbert Informational Books Medal books. OR one of the 2012 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults books.Click any of the links to see the book choices for this month.
Participants are responsible for obtaining a copy of the book.
Participants are expected to:

Read the assigned book(s) for the month.
Respond to the discussion questions.
Repond to other participants answers in separate posts.
Create a lesson using the book(s).
Meet together for 1 hour to futher disucss the books and share lesson plans.

Disucssions need to posted and Lessons need to be emailed by 9:00 PM Sunday, April 28.

We will meet to disucss the books on Monday, April 29 from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Timken Library.

Please enter the Timken Commons from the 4th St. parking lot at Door 2. The Library is on the second floor, up the big, blue staircase.

Discussion Board and Questions:

Subject	Author	Replies	Views	Last Message
Discussion Question #4	mindyengler	15	152	May 1, 2013 by lindsey_r1
Discussion Question #2	mindyengler	29	211	Apr 29, 2013 by silvaroli_b
Discussion Question #1	mindyengler	29	246	Apr 29, 2013 by silvaroli_b
Discussion Question #3	mindyengler	31	209	Apr 29, 2013 by cmoore08
8 LPDC Hours and/or 6.5 Staff Development Hours?	mindyengler	17	152	Apr 19, 2013 by rodriguez_k
What are you reading?	mindyengler	16	141	Apr 19, 2013 by kurtz_j

Lesson Plan Instructions:

Save and name your lesson plan with the title of the book and your name (Example: Zahra's Paradise - Mindy)
Email Mindy your lesson plan at engler_m@ccsdistrict.org

Lesson Plans: